Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland loves us 3,000 Following his faux-oblivious Instagram appearance with RDJ, Tom Holland popped down to Anaheim to appear at D23 to shill Onward, a Pixar film he’s co-starring in with Chris Pratt. The very big elephant in the very big room is the dissolution of the Sony-Marvel production deal that allowed Holland By Sarah • Aug 26, 2019 02:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kit Harington and Gemma Chan are Eternals, too On Friday afternoon, Deadline ran a hilariously skimpy report that Kit Harington would be joining the MCU, offering no details or even vague options of what he could be doing. During D23 his involvement was confirmed when it was announced he would be joining The Eternals as Dane Whitman, aka By Sarah • Aug 26, 2019 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rey’s new lightsaber Disney biennial fan convention, D23, happened over the weekend, and now the question is when Disney is just going to make this an annual event. This year felt like Comic-Con Part II, with an unending cycle of weekend news, including movies and TV shows that won’t be coming out By Sarah • Aug 26, 2019 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in Angel Has Fallen Gerard Butler—who is basically Jason Statham without the charm, or Chuck Norris with a Scottish accent—makes a certain kind movie. His movies are dependably bad, his performances are reliably wooden, he never has chemistry with anyone on screen. His movies always feature some combination of the following: Gerard By Sarah • Aug 23, 2019 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A cure for your Spider-Man blues The news that Sony and Marvel are dissolving their deal to co-produce Spider-Man hit fans hard. Spider-Man is popular unto himself, the MCU version of the character is particularly popular, not least because he is the protégé of Tony Stark, one of the MCU’s most beloved characters. People are By Sarah • Aug 22, 2019 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keri Russell has Antlers I have not watched The Americans, because I have weird middle-child resentment toward The Americans for pulling focus from Justified and I don’t care if that’s unrational, Justified was wonderful but the minute The Americans showed up everyone was like, Oh look at this drama that’s all By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 03:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Other Bombshell Recently, the title “Bombshell” has been most affiliated with Hedy Lamarr, who has been relaunched into public awareness largely thanks to a documentary called Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. However, there is a new Bombshell on the block, and it’s the story of Roger Ailes’ downfall starring Nicole Kidman, By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More Matrix, I guess? Live from the heart of the Keanuaissance, comes the shocking announcement that The Matrix 4 is happening, with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss set to reprise their roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively, and Lana Wachowski is returning to write, direct, and produce. Notably, her sister, Lilly Wachowski, is not By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 11:48 am
Business of Hollywood The Spider-Man Custody Battle The most surprising entertainment marriage of the decade is the union between Sony and Marvel, who have co-produced Spider-Man together since rebooting the character in 2016 with Captain America: Civil War. Their marriage was medieval in that it was entirely about property acquisition, giving Marvel one of their marquee heroes By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond Word Salad Poor Bond 25. Every time to they try to get a little spotlight for themselves, they get Cats-trailered right off the internet. First it was doing a “live launch” of Bond 25 during Avengers-Winterfell Week, and now it’s getting booted out of the trending topics by Marvel, AGAIN. We’ By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Good Boys is actually good This summer has seen a greater than ever divide between the haves (Disney) and the have nots (everyone else) at the box office, but Good Boys opened over the weekend with $21 million, making it only the third original movie to top the box office THIS YEAR (yikes on bikes By Sarah • Aug 20, 2019 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart’s yikes movie Kristen Stewart has a lot on, at the moment. In a couple weeks she’ll be at Venice, then TIFF, for Seberg, and then she’ll make her official return to the mainstream with Charlie’s Angels. And then, in January, when she might be campaigning for trophies, she has By Sarah • Aug 19, 2019 12:11 pm
TV Live Blog Ewan’s do-over Two years ago, when Lucasfilm was in full-on Star Wars spin-off mode, there was a rumor that they were considering a solo film based on the young(er) Obi-Wan Kenobi. At the time, I said I was not interested unless Ewan McGregor reprised the role and finally got to play By Sarah • Aug 16, 2019 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews GLOW is one of the best shows you’re not watching In its third season, GLOW finds itself in a rut. The show-within-a-show, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, has relocated to Las Vegas to do a stint as a floor show at the fictional Fan-Tan Casino. Rooted in one place and doing the same show every night becomes tedious, and it forces By Sarah • Aug 15, 2019 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Awkwafina gets her own franchise Awkwafina continues her amazing summer with the news that she is getting her own franchise. We learned at Comic-Con that she will co-star in Marvel’s Shang-Chi, and now she will star in her own potential franchise vehicle, The Last Adventure of Constance Verity, based on the book by A. By Sarah • Aug 13, 2019 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Kitchen is a mess There is nothing more frustrating than a movie that wastes a good premise AND a good cast: Welcome to The Kitchen, the most frustrating movie of 2019 (so far). Adapted from a comic book by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle, The Kitchen is the directorial debut of screenwriter Andrea Berloff By Sarah • Aug 13, 2019 03:04 pm
